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Passion & Purpose
Maurice Turmel PhD
Who are we, standing here on this planet, looking for a place to be? Arewe the “forgotten ones” from a time gone by, a piece of pre-history perhaps, thatlets itself unfold through the pages of time?Are we here all alone, or are we part of something bigger, larger perhapsthan we could ever imagine? Aren’t we like children after all, looking out into theUniverse, wondering what this purpose of ours is all about?As children we had dozens of questions about this subject, didn’t we? Wewondered all the time where we were from and why we were here while wemarveled about this place called Earth. There were grasshoppers, butterflies,leaping frogs, crawling snakes, annoying mosquitoes, dogs and cats, all sorts of strange things that we uncovered for ourselves each and every day. That wasthe period of our discovering this amazing environment in which we wereenveloped. We wondered often then, looking up at the clouds, with a blade of grass stuck in our mouths: “who are we?” and “why are we here?”We’re going to answer those questions in this set of articles entitled:Passion & Purpose. Because, we must have access to, and require both of these fundamentals to feel truly alive and valuable. Looking back at our respective childhoods we can see the Passion in every day of our life,manifesting itself here, there and everywhere as we set about on our path of discovery. Yes, we were young then, but oh so passionate we were too.Somewhere along the line that “flame” got diminished, not going out completely;but reduced to a small ember, which we need to fan now to return it to the brightblue flame, we once were. Fires do come and go; but Passion, that is forever.And what is Passion without Purpose? A car spinning its wheels perhaps?An electric motor running out of control, with nowhere to go? Passion needsPurpose to be attached to, to be drawn by, to be enlivened by and directedtoward. If we have no purpose, then how can we have passion? Even if it’s assimple as collecting stamps, we still need passion to get motivated. In themorning, when we rise, what gets us going? Yes, some will say “fear of gettingfired” or “not making that next mortgage payment.” But passion is there all thesame, getting us excited about the day ahead, the challenges we face, thesuccesses we aspire to. Yes, there are times when we’d rather stay in bed. Butthese are few and far between. Even a lazy person can be passionate aboutdoing as little as possible. Maybe he and/or she are holding their breath for anew world record or to make a particular point. Does anyone remember JohnLennon and Yoko Ono, in the early 70’s, staying in bed in a Montreal Hotel for several days to bring attention to some important issue they were concernedwith? How can we know what anyone is about without tapping into their passionor purpose?
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